Hello family and friends! It's been a grand week here in Roseburg, hope yours was good too!
Our People:
José: taught him la palabra de sabiduria. We had just got the first point- café- and he went on a bit of a rant, and I was a little scared. But then I noticed that he kept saying "Addiction" every once in a while, and I realized he wasn't ranting in the way I thought he was. He agreed with every point, and told us he'd try living the word of wisdom this week (he drinks around 2 cups of coffee a week). Which was super cool. Turns out the Word of Wisdom (he actually didn't know what we were talking about until we said it in English) was what got him interested in talking with the missionaries in the first place. He's a legend, and pretends like he understands me! :) What a guy!
Montserrat and Karla: taught them about tithing and fasting. It went pretty well. They seem pretty close to baptism, and Karla's mom (Maria) is still getting baptized June 5th, so maybe seeing that will help them. Apparently Karla didn't know about that, so hopefully it wasn't like a surprise or anything.
Gabriel: referral from the other sisters, he speaks español. We had a phone call with him for about an hour and I didn't understand a single word. My comp who's first language is Spanish said she didn't understand parts of it either. :)
Haylie: Haylie is such a legend! We taught her the ten commandments this week, we're having dinner with her (extremely anti) parents next weekend. We'll see how things go, but Haylie seems pretty convinced they'll play nice. Hermana Coca's making the dinner though, so if they don't play nice I'm going to suggest we take dinner with us and dip out.
Brian: 17 years old, baptized in March! Absolute legend. Calls me out every lesson, by being absolutely golden. Yesterday he told me about how he doesn't do homework on Sunday, and student me felt very called out. :) He also composes music which is wild!
Ryan: was supposed to get baptized this week, but needs a bit more time for the word of wisdom. He showed up to church still though, and told us he knows this is the true church! :) I guess almost 20 years of missionary lessons really have paid off for him.
Oscar: the first Spanish person baptized in this area! He went and did baptisms for the dead Saturday with names he had spent hours doing family history work for!
Maria: Oscar/Karla's mom, still on date for June 5th, was sick last week so we couldn't have a lesson. :(
Happenings:
I got my second dose of the COVID vaccine this week! It went a LOT smoother this time. This guy had clearly administered a shot before that day, and didn't leave any needles hanging in my arm. I also didn't feel sick at all, and my arm barely even got stiff this time! :) God is good.
Hermana Coca and I were weeding for a lady in our ward who is allergic to weeds, and we had a bit of an ant infestation! I guess I finally can understand the meaning of "ants in my pants". It was quite the time, and I was feeling phantom bugs crawl all over me for a couple days.
Once of the Elders was saying the closing prayer at District Council, and was reading off the names of all our people. Once they got around to ours he found "Jose" written at the top of our list. Now if any of you are unaware José is said "ho-say", but this Elder said "Josie". I don't know who Josie is, but I hope that prayer helped her out a bit. :) Hermana Coca and I have been dying about it ever since it happened.
Every Saturday we have a member lesson with the Wielands; and every week she makes us a treat for after. Hermana Coca had been telling me all about this lady's carrot cake, and how much she wanted it, she ever went as far as to pray for it. Then after we finished our lesson Sister Wieland brought out two dishes of carrot cake and ice cream. I thought Hermana Coca was going to cry tears of joy. Prayers really do work my friends. :)
Sunday morning Coca and I were making some pico of sorts, and she was cutting up some jalapenos. A few minutes later she was dying and her lips were swelling, apparently she had gotten juice all over her lips and they were on fire. We had to go to church though, so she ended up driving to church with an otter pop sitting between her lips to attempt to cool it down. :) It was pretty funny!
Also apparently I'm hitting 6 meses tomorrow!! Say what?!? Pretty sure I just got here!
Hope you all have the best week, til next Monday,
Hermana Shelton :)
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